The Best One Yet
🥜 “PB & Profits” — Uncrustables’ $1B sandwich. The Mullet Stock Market. Klarna’s AI Ozempic.
02 Dec 2024
Uncrustables is close to $1B in annual sales… Biggest fan of these PB&J snacks? NFL players. How to explain stocks? We have a “Mullet Market”... Fundamentals in the front, crypto party in the back.Klarna is the most intense user of Artificial Intelligence we’ve ever seen… 1 chatbot replaced 700 humans.Plus, hot new beauty trend? Crude Oil… Bathing in black gold is the 800-year-old spa surprise.$SJM $SPYWant more business storytelling from us? Check out the latest episode of our new weekly deepdive show: The untold origin story of… “Jacuzzi: Legend of the Life-Saving Tub” 🛀Subscribe to The Best Idea Yet: Wondery.fm/TheBestIdeaYetLinks to listen.“The Best Idea Yet”: The untold origin stories of the products you’re obsessed with — From the McDonald’s Happy Meal to Birkenstock’s sandal to Nintendo’s Super Mario Brothers to Sriracha. New 45-minute episodes drop weekly.—-----------------------------------------------------Subscribe to our new (2nd) show… The Best Idea Yet: Wondery.fm/TheBestIdeaYetLinksEpisodes drop weekly. It’s The Best Idea Yet.GET ON THE POD: Submit a shoutout or fact: https://tboypod.com/shoutouts FOR MORE NICK & JACK: Newsletter: https://tboypod.com/newsletter Connect with Nick: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicolas-martell/ Connect with Jack: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jack-crivici-kramer/ SOCIALS:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tboypod TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@tboypodYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@tboypod Anything else: https://tboypod.com/ Subscribe to our new (2nd) show… The Best Idea Yet: Wondery.fm/TheBestIdeaYetLinksEpisodes drop weekly. It’s The Best Idea Yet.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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This is Nick. This is Jack. Welcome back. It is Monday, December 2nd, and today's pod is the best one yet. This is a T-Boy. The top three pop business news stories you need to know today. You know, Jack, people are still talking about my chocolate mousse pie. It's still a thing. Is that so? I heard there's a rumor going around. That's just what I hear.
Was that your contribution to the Thanksgiving dinner? It was a little more than a contribution. It was, I would say, a highlight. Although I'm assuming you organized like 12 games of charades before dinner was over. True. After dinner charades games, fishbowl specifically. Yeah. Best thing to do by a fireplace. It's like my dream night. Jack's undefeated in fishbowl, according to Jack.
Yetis, welcome back. Jack and I prepared the three fantastic stories for you. What do we got on the pod, Jack? For our first story, Uncrustables, the crustless peanut butter and jelly sandwich is now a billion dollar brand because Uncrustables became the unofficial snack of the NFL locker room.
For our second story, with both stocks and crypto at all time highs, we've got our first ever mullet market. The stock market looks like a mullet. Fundamentals in the front, party in the back. And our third and final story is Klarna. Klarna just used the most intense form of artificial intelligence we have ever seen. Because Klarna turned one quarter of their staff into artificial intelligence.
But before we hit that wonderful mix of stories. Honestly, fantastic mix to come back from a long weekend, Jack. Welcome back. You're probably still covered in some oil from that turkey or that stuffing or Nick's moose dessert thing. Yeah. Or you're covered in that oil from that cheese dip watching the football games. Well, maybe you shouldn't clean that oil off.
Because the new beauty trend, Yetis, is the oil bath. Specifically, crude oil baths. That's right. Pause the pod. Soak your body in a whole bathtub of black petroleum oil. That's the trend, baby. This is actually happening in spas in the Middle East, even though it sounds like the dirtiest thing we can imagine. And yet these oil baths were designed to get you clean.
I mean, Jack, you got to sprinkle on some context for us over there. Last week, the World Climate Conference, COP29, was held in Azerbaijan. Interesting host because Azerbaijan is one of the most oil-dependent countries on the face of the earth. 60% of this Middle Eastern nation's income comes from the sale of oil. But get this, besties.
Azerbaijan has so much oil that they are bathing in it, literally. It's a true story. At spas, they're not putting you in baths of olive oil. They're putting you in baths of dark, murky, black petroleum oil that none of us encounter, like, ever. Jack and I got curious. We jumped in T-boy style, saw the pictures. It looks like that scene from Dune, Jack. I know what scene you're talking about. Yeah.
It's a hot tub of petroleum. That's what you're bathing in, baby. It's like a spa run by Sunoco. It's like a Texaco jacuzzi. I'll order the 50-minute gasoline treatment, please. Yetis, this is wild. This oil remedy goes back 800 years. Marco Polo even did it on his travels. And apparently, this rare crude oil bath is a dermatologist's dream.
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